top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-02-21

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

2 years ago

I found a backdoor into my bed

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed

2 years ago

DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index

2 years ago

Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/

2 years ago

Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

https://johnnydecimal.com

2 years ago

20 years working on the same software product

https://successfulsoftware.net/2025/02/21/20-years-working-on-the-same-software-product/

2 years ago

Why Ruby on Rails still matters

https://www.contraption.co/rails-versus-nextjs/

2 years ago

We are the builders

https://www.wethebuilders.org/

2 years ago

Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)

https://digital.archives.caltech.edu/collections/Images/1.10-29/

2 years ago

US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch

https://www.patentlyapple.com/2025/02/a-federal-judge-has-invalidated-an-omni-medsci-patent-which-could-open-the-door-for-a-blood-glucose-solution-for-apple-watch.html

2 years ago

Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450

https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/project/sky-t1/

2 years ago

Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1

https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/usage/

2 years ago

Suckless.org: software that sucks less

https://suckless.org/

2 years ago

Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06992

2 years ago

Every .gov Domain

https://flatgithub.com/cisagov/dotgov-data/blob/main/?filename=current-full.csv&sha=7dc7d24fba91f571692112d92b6a8fbe7aecbba2

2 years ago

Bybit loses $1.5B in hack

https://www.tradingview.com/news/coindesk:cda1c390e094b:0-bybit-ceo-confirms-exchange-was-hacked-for-1-46b-says-his-firm-can-cover-the-loss/

2 years ago

The Deep Research problem

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/2/17/the-deep-research-problem

2 years ago

Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)

https://kyrylo.org/html/2024/10/25/why-does-target-blank-have-an-underscore-in-front.html

2 years ago

Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineer-jobs-five-year-low/

2 years ago

Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker

https://github.com/Edu4rdSHL/fly-to-podman

2 years ago

The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine

https://www.renpy.org/

2 years ago

DeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementation

https://github.com/therealoliver/Deepdive-llama3-from-scratch

2 years ago

Users don't care about your tech stack

https://www.empathetic.dev/users-dont-care-about-your-tech-stack

2 years ago

Apple pulls encrypted iCloud security feature in UK amid backdoor demands

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/21/apple-pulls-encrypted-icloud-security-feature-uk/

2 years ago

Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/world/europe/baltic-sea-cable-sweden.html

2 years ago

SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired

https://www.wired.com/story/faa-doge-elon-musk-space-x/

2 years ago

Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recalls-380000-vehicles-us-over-power-steering-issue-2025-02-21/

2 years ago

I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen

https://www.getlago.com/blog/office-snacks

2 years ago

Xonsh – A Python-powered shell

https://xon.sh/

2 years ago

BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English

https://github.com/DeclanChidlow/BritCSS

2 years ago

Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images

https://vpetersson.com/2025/02/21/yocto-rockpi-and-sboms.html

2 years ago

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/james-webb-space-telescope/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-faces-20-percent-budget-cuts

2 years ago

Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices

https://github.com/abeisgoat/slime_os

2 years ago

The Profitable Startup

https://linear.app/blog/the-profitable-startup

2 years ago

Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud (2021)

https://jacobbuckman.com/2021-05-29-please-commit-more-blatant-academic-fraud/

2 years ago

The Shape of a Mars Mission

https://idlewords.com/2025/02/the_shape_of_a_mars_mission.htm

2 years ago

'What a lie': Danish astronaut responds to Musk

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/21/elon-musk-butch-wilmore-suni-williams-nasa-astronaut-iss-claims-biden

2 years ago

Sparse Voxels Rasterization: Real-Time High-Fidelity Radiance Field Rendering

https://svraster.github.io/

2 years ago

I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)

https://substack.com/home/post/p-157633768

2 years ago

Lithium-sulfur battery retains 80% charge capacity after 25,000 cycles

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-lithium-sulfur-battery-retains-capacity.html

2 years ago

Some Programming Language Ideas

https://davidbos.me/posts/some_programming_language_ideas/

2 years ago

On Running systemd-nspawn Containers (2022)

https://benjamintoll.com/2022/02/04/on-running-systemd-nspawn-containers/

2 years ago

Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse

https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2025-02-19-preventing-abuse/

2 years ago

Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity

https://blog.nateliason.com/p/fast-cash-slow-equity

2 years ago

Ask HN: Tired of startups – want a normal job. Help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43122800

2 years ago

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/hp_ditches_15_minute_wait_time_call_centers/

2 years ago

Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)

https://leafo.net/guides/dsl-in-lua.html

2 years ago

Linus on Rust and the Kernel DMA Layer

https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAHk-=wgLbz1Bm8QhmJ4dJGSmTuV5w_R0Gwvg5kHrYr4Ko9dUHQ@mail.gmail.com/

2 years ago

General Reasoning: Free, open resource for building large reasoning models

https://gr.inc/

2 years ago

CDC terminates flu vaccine promotion campaign

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302906/cdc-flu-vaccine-campaign-terminated

2 years ago

Linus Torvalds: "If you don’t want to deal with Rust, you get no say on it"

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wgLbz1Bm8QhmJ4dJGSmTuV5w_R0Gwvg5kHrYr4Ko9dUHQ@mail.gmail.com/#r

2 years ago

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

https://www.theverge.com/news/617014/federal-workers-we-the-builders-website-doge

2 years ago

Launch HN: Massdriver (YC W22) – Self-serve cloud infra without the red tape

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129301

2 years ago

Alabama police department put on leave after grand jury recommends its abolition

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/entire-alabama-police-department-put-leave-grand-jury-recommends-aboli-rcna192982

2 years ago

Social media platforms are removing vital info on reproductive health

https://bsky.app/profile/eff.org/post/3likxtlnruk23

2 years ago

The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR Is Dead

https://www.filfre.net/2025/02/the-crpg-renaissance-part-3-tsr-is-dead/

2 years ago

Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro in April

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-intelligence-comes-to-apple-vision-pro-in-april/

2 years ago